Re: [Batch 16 patch 15/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 240

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On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 01:30:24PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 03.06.19 07:44, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > --- a/scripts/package/mkdebian
> > +++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian
> > @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> >  #!/bin/sh
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> >  #
> >  # Copyright 2003 Wichert Akkerman <wichert@xxxxxxxxx>
> >  #
> > @@ -160,12 +161,6 @@ Copyright: 1991 - 2018 Linus Torvalds an
> >  The git repository for mainline kernel development is at:
> >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> >  
> > -    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > -    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > -    the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.
> > -
> > -On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
> > -License version 2 can be found in \`/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
> >  EOF
> >  
> >  # Generate a control file
> 
> Really sure that the generated deb copyright file should be changed ?
> (this text is not for the script itself, but the generated .deb)
> 
> Anyways, this statement might not be fully correct, if not everything
> really is GPLv2.
> 
> Oh, and I can't see any explicit statement that this script is gplv2.

Oops, this scripts went a bit crazy here, this "GPL statement" is for
the autogenerated .deb file, not the license for the script itself.

Thomas, you should add this to the "look at later" file.

Well, it really should just get add to the "files with no license so
they get a GPLv2 tag added to them" pile, as that is what this one is.

thanks,

greg k-h



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